Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-22
A DIABOLICAL CRIME.
FIENDISH ACT OF z. l. DENNIE,
A NOTORIOUS OUTLAW.
Worse Than Child Murder-A Little
Girl Enticed From Home Villain
ously Assaulted and Deserted.

One of the most dastardly outrages that
was ever perpetrated in civilized COM
munity has Just come to light in this city,
and the perpetrator of the crime villain
and jail-bird, if captured, should receive
a coat OF tar and feathers, if no greater ven
geance is melted out to him. Thursday
evening the reportorial force of the RECORD
UNION were in possession of the facts, but
for fear of defeating the ends OF justice,
nothing was put in print regarding the mat
ter.
The facts briefly stated are as follows: a
man by the name of Shoup, who makes
living for himself and family by hunting
game for the Sacramento markets, lives on
the east bank OF the Sacramento river, some
eight miles above the city, near FISHER
mems Lake. The family is one Of respect
ability, and the eldest child,
A BRIGHT LITTLE GIRL,
Aged Il. was the pride OF the household.
Bv laboring hard the father and mother
managed to clothe their little ones respect
ably, and they were sent to the nearest
country school. The father would bring
bis game home at night, and the same was
shipped to the market every morning by
the fish wagon that supplied Coopers mar
ket from the lake. For quite while Fred
/. Dennie. q contemplate jail-bird,
drove the fish wagon, and IN this way be-
came acquainted with the Shoup family. !
The villain, noticing the little girl above
referred to, used all the cunning devices IN
his power to become on familiar terms with |
her, and being young, unsophlstcated and
entirely unsuspicious OF the hend she was |
dealing with, came to look upon Donnie in |
tl,a Erh Of q tria
she was willing to do his bidding. The !
father and mother, noticing the attention |
paid to the little girl by
THIS NOTORIOUS JAIL BIRD,
Cautioned her regarding him, and he was
told to discontinue his visits, as his pre-
sence was obnoxious to them. The child |
of course could not fathom the meaning of |
all this, and looked upon the act of her |
parents as unwarranted, and caused her to
think none the less of Dennie. About this |
time Mr.. Cooper discovered that Dennie |
was systematically robbing him, and dis |
pensed with his services. For some weeks |
Dennie did not see the girl, but on Monday |
last, knowing that Shoup was hunting in |
the neighborhood of Rio Vista, visited the !
latter's home. After skulking around the |
place in the brush the most Of the day, he |
succeeded in inveigling the girl short dis |
lance from the house, and imposing upon |
her childish innocence, succeeded in get |
ting her to
STEAL OUT OF THE HOUSE,
While her mother slept, at night, promising |
to bring her to Sacramento, marry her, |
cover her with beautiful presents, and pic |
tured 10 her a life Of happiness she had |
never dreamed of. After nightiall, when !
the mother was sound asleep never dream !
ing that the DESTROYER was near the little !
simple girl crept softly from the room, with |
bundle of her clothes upon her arm, and
Joined Dennie who was near by, waiting
for her. When the mother awoke in the
morning, and found her child was gone
she was distracted with grief. Her clothing
being also missed, as was the fathers hunt |
ing boat, told the story all too plainly that
the child had gone with Donnie, and her |
ru was complete. An uncle of the
girl came down from Oregon the next day, |
and started out on a still hunt for the man. |
or rather
INHUMAN BRUTE
And if he had found the miserable whelp !
the latter would have paid for his perfid- |
ious crime with his life blood. All the |
haunts of Dennie were visited but no.
where could he be found. The uncle came
to the RECoRDUNIoN Office, and, with the |
aid of the reporters upon this paper, sue
ceeded in finding the girl Thursday night, |
but the matter was kept from the public, !
hoping that by SO doing the villain might |
not escape. Yesterday, at noon, q repre- |
sentative of the RECORD UNION visited the |
Chief of Police and laid the matter before |
him and placed all the information at his |
DISPOSAL case most thoroughly worked |
up, so much so that the Chief expressed |
surprise and said he would take hold of the |
matter and fix it so that
THE VILLAIN COULD NOT ESCAPE.
DO known Dennie," said the Chief; |
well I should say I did" Turning to |
his picture-gallery of rogues, he pointed to |
DENIES picture, saying: Here is is. He I
IS thief and bad man generally, but this F..
is the most villainous crime that l have /
ever known him to be guilty Of" Getting
into the buggy with the Chief, the reporter
directed him to the house where the IN
fortunate girl was to be found.
When asked her name she replied Mary
Z. Shoup, and said she would be fifteen
years of age on the 10th of next January.
The reporter pulled a piece of paper out
Of his pocket and showing it to the weep
ing child 6sked what she knew about it.
She said: THAT is what Dennie gave
me and said that
MADE Us MAN AND WIFE"
The reporter obtained the manuscript
from her uncle yesterday morning. 1t is
written upon a scrap of note paper, in a
scrawling hand, and reads as follows:
SACRAMENTO, October Is. 1887.
We, the Under sign do hear by agree to live
as husband and Wife by Mutual Consents.
Witnesses by FRED. I. DE,NIE,
+. Il MckALL, MARY E. SHOUP.
DAS. HARVEY.
The girl then told her sad experience as
follows: Donnie came 10 her home, and,
By honeyed words and gilded promises
succeeded in inducing her to leave with
him, which she did after the family had
retired. When she Joined him on the river
bank another man put in his appearance,
! whom, she says, is named Ed. Flumer.
Seeing the third party, the girl became
frightened, and would have returned TO the
house. had not Donnie forcibly held her.
She was placed in the boat Dennie united
it from the tree and the trio came to Sac
ramento, arriving at Jibboom street about
10 o'clock at night. The child became
frightened from the moment she left her
home, and has
AN INDIsTINCT RECOLLECTION
OF the subsequent happenings On their
arrival in the city the two men and
the little girl came up l to Third,
down the latter street as far as the
RECORD UNION Office, passed through the |
alley short distance and entered the sa-
loon of the City Hotel by the back en-
trance The girl was Ushered into a back
room, and Donnie securing q piece of paper
drew up the above instrument, signed it,
aud, handing her the pen, told her she must
append her signature, which she did, and it
was then witnessed by two rough-looking
individuals, whom Donnie assured her were
his friends. He then told the girl that this
was legal marriage, that they now were
man and wife, and all his promises would
be filled. He led the child from the saloon
to a clearinghouse somewhere in the
neighborhood--shec cannot now locate it, but
says she don't think it wac more than one
or two blocks away. They went up stairs,
and Donnie addressing the man in charge
said: Reynolds, l want ROOM" They
went through long hall, rooms on both
sides, and were
SHOWN Hzro NUNBEE aIvE.
They retired about 1885. and Dennie
would not allow her to Leave the room
until p o'clock the next day. He
then took her out TO restaurant and
bought her break fast; then took her to